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WH Ch. 1
WH Ch. 1 Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| artifact | human-made objects, such as tools and jewelry |
| culture | a people's unique way of life |
| hominid | humans and other creatures that walk upright |
| Paleolithic Age | earlier, longer part of the Stone Age, called the Old Stone as, lasted from about 2.5 million to 8000 BC, oldest stone chopping tools date back o this era |
| Neolithic Age | began about 8000 BC and ended as early as 3000 BC in some areas, people who lived during this second phase of the Stone Age learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animala |
| technology | ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs |
| Homo sapiens | the species name for modern humans |
| components of a culture | common practices, shared understandings, and social organization |
| Lucy | oldest hominid found to date |
| Cro-Magnons | a group of prehistoric humans that appeared about 40,000 years ago, skeletal reaims show that they are identical to modern humans |
| nomad | highly mobile people who moved from place to place foraging, or searching, for new sources of food |
| hunter-gatherer | nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods |
| Neolithic Revolution | the agricultural revolution, shift from food-gathering to food-producing culture, one of the great breakthroughs in history |
| slash-and-burn farming | a practice in which cut trees and grasses are burned to clear a field, the remaining ashes fertilized the soil |
| domestication | taming of animals |
| civilization | a complex culture with five characteristics |
| specialization | the development of skills in a specific kind of work |
| artisans | skilled workers who make goods by hand |
| institution | a long-lasting pattern of organization in a community |
| scribe | professional record keepers |
| cuneiform | a system of writing that means "wedge-shaped" |
| Bronze Age | the time when people began using bronze, rather than copper and stone, to fashion (make) tools and weapons |
| barter | trading good and services without using money |
| ziggurat | a tiered, pyramid-shaped monument that formed part of a Sumerian temple |
| Five Characteristics of a Civilization | advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology |
| pictographs | symbols of the objects or what they represented in Sumerian writing |
| stylus | a scribe's tool that was a sharpened reed with a wedge-shaped point |
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